Anybody who thinks Planned Parenthood is doing a “lot of good things” is nearly evil incarnate. An old, self-obsessed coot who believes in inheritance taxes and hates the unborn. Can you think of a more Dickensian villain?
I actually read his autobiography and was struck by his total disconnection at a personal level. He basically pored over investment data before noting his wife had left him. This only occurred to him after he ran out of his favorite drink and noticed that his wife had hired a personal maid to come in to take care of him as a parting gesture. Top that off with that he doesn’t believe in helping his family, but willing hands over billions of dollars of Berkshire stock to the nonprofit Gates foundation (which nicely shelters his wealth from taxes), and it is obvious that the guy owns the world but really is completely broke when it comes to people who care about him. How he has become some sort of warped folk hero is quite amazing considering the outcome of his life (disregarding his obvious financial success). His obsession with killing babies further paints him out as a very cold human being.
If he were Ebeneezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim would have been snuffed out via a free abortion.
That's just libelous. Where is there one shred of evidence that any member of Buffet's family wants for anything? As I understand it, he's set them up quite comfortably -- but not so comfortable that they become spoiled and don't ever have to work for an honest wage.
And criticizing him for giving his wealth to charity instead of turning his offspring into spoiled Paris Hilton clones? That's just ridiculous.
Reading this thread, it seems like far too many people have Free Republic disease: they don't like a man's politics (I don't like Buffet's politics either) so they feel the need to denigrate and attack him for everything he's done, including things that are totally non-political, or even sensible (the Gates Foundation does tremendous, mostly politically unobjectionable work).